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Title
[Corner of Larkin and Grove looking northwest]
Creator
Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1908]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
V1p191b
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 191 bottom.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written under photo: "Block bounded by Larkin, Polk, Hayes & Grove Streets. This was the site of the Mechanics Pavilion prior to the fire of 1906. The large building on the right is a brick building and was transferred bodily to its present location." View is of the empty lot where the Exposition Auditorium was later built. A large brick structure is seen a block away on Grove Street, on the sight of the present Civic Center Plaza. A Fredericksburg Beer sign is visible at the extreme left near a plume of smoke. Car tracks and wires are in the foreground on Hayes.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001380748CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4005
Subject
Buildings--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place
California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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